favorite 510 picture

[Byron510]

This is probably my favorite photo of any 510 I've owned (my 3rd '68 4dr). I don't know if it's because I liked this car so much, or if it was the story that lead up to this photo, and the place it was taken: the short version was that I blew up the motor some 800 miles from home (piston collapsed due to foreign piece of gasket plugging main jet on twin Mikuni carb set up/ cyl#3 - leaning out that one cylinder at highway speed for possibly up to 3 hours of constant prairie driving). So I limped it, smoking like hell, to an acquaintance of my fathers. The next morning I sourced a wrecking yard L20B ('76 710), hired a cab to get it from the wreckers to my fathers friend place, and installed it complete, with my old carbs and exhaust manifold, made an exhaust mod to hold it together all in the same day. At 11pm I hit the road, bound for home. I drove until 2am, and I just couldn’t hold my eyes open any longer, pulled off at a brake check pull out on the highway and slept in the car, strapped into my 5 point harness in my RCI aluminum seat (with my jumper against the drivers window for a pillow). I woke up just before sunrise, and hit the highway again. As the sun was just breaking the horizon, I was approaching the Rocky Mountains from the eastern side, just outside of Jasper Alberta on the Yellowhead Hwy. I pulled over in the brisk cool morning air, and took this photo while standing in the middle of the deserted highway.

 

 

BTW The rest of the trip home was clear sailing - that $100 wrecker motor lasted two years of serious abuse before one day dropping a valve seat (watch those original damn U67 Bronze intake seats!)

One day I'll find the original photo, and have it properly scanned, because this rendering doesn’t do the car any justice.

[nick_m]

Thats such a cool story. I can't wait to one day rack up a whole lot of miles road tripping in my b110.

 

This is probably my favourite 510 photo. Straight paint thats not an outrageous color, nice wheels that aren't too big and I'm hoping a nice warmed up L :)

 

[thisisastickup]

Hot damn, what kind of wheels are those?

[nick_m]

Hayahsi street fins. You can still but them new ex japan and they come in all sorts of awesome widths and offsets. I can't find the website anymore

but IIRC correctly you can get practically everything between 13" and 15" and 6" wide to 9" wide :)

I'll keep looking for the site. It was a while ago now

[nick_m]

http://www.hayashiracing.com/wheel/wheel.html

 

oh it looks like they've reigned in their sizes on the 13's and 14's but you can still get 15;s upto 10" wide!

[thisisastickup]

yeah, I found the site. can I buy them off of there? I don't speak japanese, so all I see is pictures.

[nick_m]

not sure sorry. I'm in the same boat as you, I need a japanese friend.

[Skib]

yeah, I found the site. can I buy them off of there? I don't speak japanese, so all I see is pictures.

 

 

word. I want a 9in/10in staggered set :D

[xAH510x]

bryanf.com...the MOST AMAZING 510 i have ever seen in my life.:eek:

[fastdadd]

bryanf.com...the MOST AMAZING 510 i have ever seen in my life.:eek:

 

here you go

[nick_m]

That thing lives in New Zealand now. Some guy (or possibly girl) imported it.

But if I recall correctly it couldn't get certified to be road legal here due to the modifications so it mostly just kicks round the shows.

[Jesse C.]

Some Russian Tourists stopped to get gas at the AM/PM we where meeting up at to go to Nick's and this girl just loved the little cars! Probably thought it was a tricked out Trabant! :)

 

[Jesse C.]

 

They made a four spoke version of these wheels over in Japan and they where sold by Mooneyes Japan, but, I have not been able to locate a set at all! :(

[defdes]

Some Russian Tourists stopped to get gas at the AM/PM we where meeting up at to go to Nick's and this girl just loved the little cars! Probably thought it was a tricked out Trabant! :)

 

 

Did she say "love your Lada" ?

[bonvo]

Some Russian Tourists stopped to get gas at the AM/PM we where meeting up at to go to Nick's and this girl just loved the little cars! Probably thought it was a tricked out Trabant! :)

 

 

did you get her number? shes hot :drool:

[datto510]

Im sort of partial to this one........ maybe cause its mine!!

 

[datto510]

 

 

[SIXTY-NINE-DIME]

[onefine,fivedime]

hows it goin guys! this is my fave pic cuz its the first action shot of me @ the track drifting! best part is i just ran into it on the internet! =) (just so u know..l20b w/ 5 speed, leaking oil out of every orifice on the motor, but it still would slide like a champ!)

[thisisastickup]

YES! is it fun to drift? me and my friend decided last night that my goal is to have the first dime in d1.

[SIXTY-NINE-DIME]

YES! is it fun to drift? me and my friend decided last night that my goal is to have the first dime in d1.

do u even have a 510 anymore? thought you sold it dude!:(

[thisisastickup]

nah, I decided against selling it. damn car gets too much love!

 

I'd probably trade for a four door, though. the more I see, the better they look to me.

[SIXTY-NINE-DIME]

fuck ya, 4 doors are the shit=] i love mine

[thisisastickup]

yeah dude.

 

if I find one for sale, I'll probably try to trade for it.

 

anyways, currently that orange one is my favorite picture. here's two from a shoot last night, they're my two favorites of my car, if that counts.

 

 

[Logical1]

 

Took my first road trip in the fairly street legal re-built dime, Went down to Maryhill museum, winery, & WW1 Stonehenge, in Goldendale, Wa. From Everett. I took I-90 to 82 down to Goldendale. I tried to go back up through trout lake to Mt. Rainier but that 'highway' was actually dirt and full of potholes the size of lakes! Needless to say, the dime was too low for it. I ended up cruzing back out to I-5 north back to up to Everett. She ran like a champ the whole way and averaged about 24mpg even with my SU's running a little rich :)